At the beginning, I was a rich female prisoner

"Okay, I'll teach you how to play mahjong. There are several ways to play it." Yu Yunxin said as she took out checkers and Monopoly.

"We do it one by one. There are many ways to play so people won't get bored."

As she spoke, she asked Chunyu, Qiushuang, Yunsong and Yanluo around her to join in as well.

She didn't want to be too bored in ancient times, so she taught this group of ancient people how to play cards and chess so that she would have company when she was bored in the future.

People in the streets and alleys of the capital were talking about why An Yuanhou's gambling house and brothel had closed down.

I heard from the servants of Anyuan Hou's mansion: "Anyuan Hou said he wanted to clean up the casinos and brothels."

"I don't think it's possible that the Ministry of Justice fined too much last time and Lord Hou wants to sell the gambling house and brothel!"

People on the street were talking about it. The casinos and brothels were undergoing renovations, and the madams in the brothels were teaching the girls how to play cards.

"See? This is all Hu."

"Mom is so amazing! I heard that the eldest princess taught me all this."

"Doesn't the princess want to open a brothel anymore?"

"Who knows? Look, the princess has removed all the beds in the private room and replaced them with tables."

Several women whispered.

"Don't gossip about the master's affairs. Don't be so stupid that you can't even remember such a simple suit. Play the cards carefully." Upon hearing this, the housekeeper immediately scolded them and showed them the winning cards.

"Remember this is a self-drawn thirteen-yao, see?"

On the other side, there were a few burly thugs moving various wine racks.

"Mom, do you want to turn this place into a restaurant?" the girl asked out of sheer curiosity.

"These are the master's arrangements. We just obey. Also, you can buy wine here in the future. The master said that you will get commissions based on the number of bottles."

"Really? Then we won't have to entertain customers anymore." asked another girl.

"You can live a more meaningful life without me."

When everyone heard this, they were a little shocked and didn't quite understand. It was not until a few days later when the brothel was changed into an entertainment dance hall, bar and other names that they realized they could earn more than the courtesans without having to entertain customers. Only then did they understand what it meant to live a more valuable life.

Yu Yunxin from the Yu Mansion is going to Ye Qingqing's coming-of-age banquet today, so she dressed up simply.

"The princess looks good in anything she wears!" Qiu Shuang said as she helped Yu Yunxin comb her hair.

"What kind of coming-of-age gift do you think we should give Ye Qingqing?" Yu Yunxin asked.

"How about we give each of them a set of jewelry as a gift?" Qiu Shuang replied.

"Okay! Let's go to the warehouse!" Just as he was about to get up.

Yunshan came over: "The second lady of the county wants to see you outside the courtyard gate!"

"What can happen to her? Princess, let's just ignore her." Qiu Shuang said.

"She should be asking me to prepare a gift for her to send to the Ye Mansion!" Yu Yunxin thought about it and the only thing Yu Yunxuan wanted to ask her for now was this.

"Then should we give it to the second young lady?" Chunyu asked.

"Let's go and take a look!" Yu Yunxin said as she stood up and walked to the entrance of Yayunyuan to look at Yu Yunxuan.

When Yu Yunxuan saw that it was Yu Yunxin coming over, she immediately went up to her and said, "Sister, I am also from the Yu Mansion. I believe you will not embarrass me. I really can't come up with a decent gift."

"Didn't your sister's father just receive his salary? How come you don't have enough money to buy gifts for an ordinary banquet?" Yu Yunxin asked.

"Don't we have grandparents to support? Wouldn't the monthly salary for so many servants in the mansion be enough?" Yu Yunxuan said intermittently.

Yu Yunxin found it funny! "Then why are you going there? Why are you going there when you can't even give a decent gift?"

Yu Yunxuan was so stunned that she couldn't say a word: "This is the coming-of-age party of the second daughter of the Minister of Rites. Sister, do you really not want me to go?"

"Qiushuang, go to the warehouse and get a set of jewelry for the second young lady!" Yu Yunxin replied.

"But the second young lady gave her jewelry, what will you give her?" Qiu Shuang asked.

"Okay, I'll prepare the rest." Yu Yunxin said and went back to the room.

Qiu Shuang gave Yu Yunxuan a set of water jade pink headdresses. These were all top-grade water jade sent from the Kingdom of Southern Dian, and were made by the best jade carving master the princess found in Nanling County. The hair crown and jade hairpins were really a bargain for Yu Yunxuan. She gritted her teeth and looked at the jewelry in the box with heartache.

After sealing the box, He Zi gave it to Yu Yunxuan. Yu Yunxuan happily took it and was shocked when she opened it. This set of headdress was so beautiful. She had never seen such delicate and translucent pink jade.

She now had an idea in mind, and after going to the backyard, she changed a jewelry box: "Yu Yunxin didn't expect that you would be so kind to outsiders, but you wouldn't give good things to your own sister."

Today, she heard that the prince was also going to the Minister of Rites' Mansion. If she wore this set of jewelry today, she would definitely attract everyone's attention and it would also make the prince look at her differently. She wanted to see Yu Yunxin's good show. Maybe after seeing this, Yu Yunxin would be angry and regret giving it to her.

When she thought about how Yu Yunxin would accuse her in public, she had already thought of all the words she would say to embarrass Yu Yunxin. She smiled foolishly at herself in the mirror.

"Princess, isn't that headdress made of water jade your favorite? You are unwilling to take it out as the treasure of your store, so how can you bear to give it to Yu Yunxuan?" Qiu Shuang asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Today you take two sets of water jade jewelry to Huiyuxuan. We are going to auction them and we must get the best price." Yu Yunxin smiled and came to the warehouse and took out two jewelry boxes and handed them to Qiu Shuang.

Qiu Shuang took the two jewelry boxes and saw that there were not only head ornaments, hairpins, step-shaking ornaments, gold-inlaid jade necklaces, but also jade bracelets, earrings, and waist buckles. It was a complete set.

"Princess Tian, ​​why don't you keep it for yourself?" Qiu Shuang asked.

"There are too many. I don't know why Lan Yishen gave so many water jades." Yu Yunxin replied.

When Qiu Shuang thought about the time when her princess in Nan Dian Kingdom took two kinds of jade objects in front of Lan Yishen, she suddenly said, "Could it be that the regent of Nan Dian Kingdom thought you like jade?"

Yu Yunxin smiled when she heard that. She had looked at the water jade at that time, but none of the water jade had the pure aura of the purple water chalcedony. She wanted to find a jade like the purple water chalcedony, not the ordinary water jade.

Since it was delivered to her, she would accept it. But since it was too much, wouldn’t it be better to just exchange it for silver?

"By the way, has Nanling County started trading grain with the Kingdom of Nandian?" Yu Yunxin asked.

Qiu Shuang nodded: "Yes, Zhao Banzhu and Qiu Yong and others arrived with a new batch of jade this time."

"By the way, Princess, what gift are you going to give Miss Ye today?" Qiu Shuang asked worriedly again.

"Qiushuang, go and get ready to pick me up at Ye Mansion later." Yu Yunxin said and drove Qiu Shuang away.

She sat on the bed and closed her eyes to rest. She saw a myriad of colorful flowers on the colorful bracelet.

Finally, her spiritual consciousness stopped on a rare Phalaenopsis orchid. There were only ten of them here, and they had white-pink flowers. The leaves of this Phalaenopsis orchid would become transparent under the sunlight or light, and the flowers would become darker in color. She remembered that in this world, someone spent 10 million to buy a pot of this flower at a flower market auction.

There are ten plants in her colorful bracelet, and these are still growing teeth. More will grow in the future. You can imagine how much they were worth in ancient times. After thinking about it, she withdrew her consciousness.

After searching around the yard, she finally found a flowerpot suitable for growing this Phalaenopsis. This flowerpot was from a white porcelain kiln in Wangshan County and was made by her when she was bored. She put jade powder in it, making it crystal clear.

After planting the orchid in another pot, he washed it in water, took it back to the room, found some dead wood and moss, and used his mind to transplant a complete Phalaenopsis.

She then decorated the flowerpot with silk cloths of various colors until she was satisfied with her masterpiece and finally covered it with cloth.

After everything was done, Qiu Shuang came back with a smile on her face: "Princess, the jade jewelry you brought attracted many people to fight for it as soon as Madam Mu opened it. Finally, Madam Mu invited those who bid the highest to the auction room on the second floor to start the auction. A woman bid five thousand taels and there were still higher bidders behind her. I knew that the princess might be in a hurry and came back early."

Yu Yunxin nodded when she heard it: "Qiushuang, let's take this to Ye's house!"

Qiu Shuang picked up the flower pot and asked, "My lord, these are flowers. Why do you want to give flowers to Miss Ye?"

"This flower is very precious, you must hold it well." Yu Yunxin turned around and reminded Chunyu.

When they arrived at the Ye Mansion, they saw that many people had already arrived. Yu Yunxuan was waiting outside the mansion in advance, so she entered the mansion only after Yun Xin's carriage arrived.

Looking at Yu Yunxin getting off the carriage and the things Qiu Shuang was holding behind her.

"The second young lady and the eldest young lady may know that you want to give her this set of water jade jewelry. She is afraid that it will be bad to give her more jewelry. It can be seen that what Qiu Shuang is holding is definitely not a good thing!" The maid next to Yu Yunxuan said, "The eldest young lady is not as good-looking as you, the second young lady, today."

Yu Yunxuan raised her handkerchief and smiled when she heard it: "Wang Cui, you are also a distant relative of my maternal grandfather, see? Even if you are a princess, you can't escape my calculations."

"Please keep an eye on the door for me later. I want to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"It's the Second Miss." Wang Cui replied.

Men and women are separated. This time it is a coming-of-age banquet for the female members and male guests are not usually invited, but relatives from the family are invited, so the prince will definitely come.

Before the coming-of-age banquet, there is a gift-giving session. The young ladies from each family will have their maids carry the gifts, and a nanny who is specifically responsible for recording the gifts will announce the gifts given by the ladies.

This also became an important part of the comparison among the girls in the harem. They would stand beside Madam Ye and Ye Qingqing and watch the fun.

After giving their gifts, the ladies would not sit down, they just liked to join in the fun.

"The Right Prime Minister's Mansion sent a pair of jade bottles for a huge sum of money."

The Liu family sent a pair of jade ruyi. "

When everyone heard this, they looked at Qin Xiyan in shock, "As expected of the only daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she can come up with something worth two thousand taels."

"Prime Minister Qin's daughter should be the most valuable in the whole venue!"

"Isn't it? She is the only daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Qin Xiyan felt very proud when she heard the flattery from everyone and smiled faintly at them.

"The princess presented a golden silk painting of a banquet."

The eldest princess walked in from the door. Upon hearing this, the female members of the Ye family immediately came out to greet her and bowed to the eldest princess.

"Don't refuse the gift. I'm honored that the Ye family invited me here." The princess said as she let the nanny beside her help her to the back hall. She never liked crowds.

"I didn't expect that the princess could come up with such a fine piece of embroidery. It seems that one million and a half taels is nothing to Marquis Anyuan."

"Nonsense! Now that the gambling houses and the brothels in Anyuan Marquis's mansion are closed, maybe they are going to sell off these properties." The two daughters whispered.

Yu Yunxin was brought to the back hall by the maid of the Ye Mansion. The Ye Mansion was really big. If there was no one to lead the way, she would probably not know how to get around.

"Princess Xingguo is in the hall of Yixiang Garden in front." The maid said as she brought Yu Yunxin in.

As soon as she entered the yard, the women of the Lin family gathered around her: "Xin'er, you're finally here."

Leng Shuang looked at Qiu Shuang holding something and asked, "Cousin, what gift are you giving Qing Qing?"

"Could it be a coral ornament?" Lin Qian said after looking at the thing in Qiu Shuang's hand.

"Okay, let's all go in!" Seeing that everyone was present, Old Lady Lin took Yu Yunxin in with her.

When Yu Yunxuan saw the Lin family, she wondered why they would go in with Yu Yunxin! What should she do now? She must make her eldest sister lose face.

Li Wan, who was standing at the door and looking back, noticed and said, "Xin'er, look, isn't that your sister? It's so funny. Why is she following you?"

Yu Yunxin looked back and saw that Yu Yunxuan was indeed wearing a water jade headdress. Yu Yunxuan was asking for trouble today and she couldn't blame her.

"Oh my god, look! Miss Yu is wearing a jade headdress. It's not the one that was just auctioned at Huiyuxuan, but the style is different."

"Yes! I just came out of Huiyuxuan. Do you know how much it costs?"

Two noble ladies walked in from the door and saw Yu Yunxuan's headdress and said enviously, "Eighteen thousand eight hundred taels, and there is another set that costs nearly thirty thousand taels."

Yu Yunxin was also shocked when she heard this. It seemed that water jade jewelry was really popular among people and they were willing to spend so much money to buy it.

Upon hearing this, Yu Yunxuan smiled proudly: "I didn't expect that the jewelry that bitch Yu Yunxin asked her to give to Miss Ye was so valuable. Now it's hers after all." She straightened her back and followed Yu Yunxin's footsteps.

Leng Shuang asked softly, "How could your son be willing to give such a high-quality jade to Yu Yunxuan?"

"Cousin, I asked her to give it as a gift to Sister Ye. I never thought that she would wear it herself." Yu Yunxin replied softly.

"Vice-Governor Lin's family presented a pair of jade bracelets, a ruby ​​necklace, a pair of red agate earrings, and a string of South Sea pearls."

As soon as the nanny finished speaking, everyone was shocked.

"Oh my god, why are the Lin family so generous? Could it be that Ye Qingqing is going to become the granddaughter-in-law of the Lin family?"

Ye Qinghe who was standing aside was also shocked by the gift sent by the Lin family. She didn't receive such a good gift at her coming-of-age banquet. How could Ye Qingqing receive such a good gift?

Originally, I thought it was sent by the Lin family, but Nanny continued to report: "Mrs. Lin sent a box of golden bird's nest."

"Mrs. Lin is worthy of being from Baiyun Villa. She immediately offered a box of top-grade bird's nest. You can imagine its value."

"Old Madam Lin gave us one thousand taels of gold." Everyone was looking at the women of the Lin family in disbelief, envious of Ye Qingqing for being able to find such a good in-law family.

This is to add clothes to Miss Ye Er.

"Princess Xingguo has a pot of Phalaenopsis." Everyone burst out laughing when they heard it.

The Lin family just sent such a valuable gift. After all, the princess is a princess, so how could she take out a pot of Phalaenopsis to fool the Ye family!